1 year anniversary of my Reddit ban. I was directly targeted by one of the site's admins for mocking them over their censorship and rampant banning of harmless communities and users.

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[–]BISH 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

And for us, they have a system that somehow detects you when it should be impossible (ie. creating and using an account only on a totally different device or network, even one someone else uses reddit on, and somehow it will still know it's you).

IMO Reddit has become a part of the apparatus of the state (US Zionist govt).

Snowden wasn't working as as govt employee when he blew the whistle on the NSA surveillance state. He worked for the legal contractor Booze Alan Hamilton.
He contracted for a private company and had access to all of the goods of the NSA surveillance.

Foolish people, into foolish things, go to Reddit to reveal the darkness in their hearts. There can be no doubt that the surveillance state is fully monitoring every interaction, and it's all on people's classified personal administrative file. They have everyone fingerprinted for the social credit score.

There's no doubt in my mind that they are similar to Booze Alan Hamilton, in that they both have shared access to classified information, and computer/network surveillance tech.

At this point, it's a honey pot.

Similarly, the state has to be monitoring this place too. Many ideas discussed here are taboo at Reddit.

It would be a miracle if they didn't.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

That's my suspicion too. But I still question how it's even possible for any agency to know that information, unless they literally have a camera in my head.

[–]EternalSunset[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Your ISP, personal computer, smartphone, etc... All of your internet-connected devices are actively collecting enormous amounts of information about you at all times. They know what sites you visit, what you type into search engines, which emails and text messages you send and receive, who are your friends and relatives from your contact list, what are you whereabouts from the phone GPS, what photos you have store in your galery, etc... They can listen in to your calls and even tap into your phone's camera, PC webcam and microphones on a whim. This much is public knowledge and people like Snowden went through great pain to try and warn us about it.

And this isn't just the government doing it either, even private companies are in on the spying. There is a shocking experiment you can do yourself: While your phone is connected to the internet, leave it on a table and pretend that you are having a conversation with someone else on the room and mention that you want to buy a certain type of product or service, for example: "Oh man this old TV sucks, I'm going to buy a a new one with a big flat screen tomorrow.". You absolutely will be shown a targeted ad related to the product you mentioned within two days.

There is a very interesting channel on Youtube detailing all of the different ways in which our devices are being used to violate our privacy and what we can do to mitigate and avoid some of this spying. I strongly recommend you check it out if you are interested in the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech/videos

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

That makes sense. But even then, reddit should not be able to figure out who I am when I'm creating a brand new account on a totally different network on a device I've never used before. There's no information about me on there.

[–]EternalSunset[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

In a case like that, yes Reddit probably wouldn't be able to know it's you, but that would be a very rare case. In almost all cases there will just be far too many ways to fingerprint a user. You deleted your cookies? They can still identify you via the unique settings and configuration of your browser. Using a different browser? They can still just look at your IP address. Using a VPN? They can still know your device's MAC address. Using your notebook instead of the PC? They can look at the MAC addresses of the other devices in your Wifi network and find that you are in the same network as before. Using your phone on a public network? You better not have linked it to your actual google account, etc...

[–]RaverJodes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

But how do they get all that when you access via a browser? It's only supposed to relay very limited information about the browser and OS etc

[–]EternalSunset[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Your browser actually sends out a lot of information that can be used to identify your device, even if you have cookies disabled. For example, your screen resolution, your configuration settings, the extensions you have installed, your timezone, details about your hardware such as your CPU and GPU models, etc... They cross-link all this stuff to create a digitial fingerprint of your browser. It is extraordinarily rare for two different users to have the same combination of all of the individual settings unless they are both running on a freshly installed and completely vanilla device.

Watch this video if you want to understand more about how they do it:
https://youtu.be/JqO-WIG3GBY?t=76

[–]RaverJodes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks. what about things that could identify a user even if they use a fresh device on a fresh network? How does Reddit do that?

[–]EternalSunset[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it's a smartphone it might be due to your tied in google/apple account. Otherwise it might be either due to IP address or being connected to a wifi network that also contains other devices that have been "red flagged".

[–]PIPESOCKS 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's hilarious that you people find it so hard to believe that Reddit knows your real IP address and read it knows your exact GPS coordinates.

Let me ask you this.. did I read that a Chinese company called tencent owns Reddit? I think I read that.. so you guys think that you're clever because you use a VPN? How many major VPN companies are there? Do you think that $0.10 / Google / Facebook that between the group of them they don't have the money to gobble up these major vpns?

Let me just tell it to you straight.. when you log into any of the major social media networks, they know your exact physical location on planet Earth, can't get no better than that can you?

Please continue waddling around the room pretending that you're so smart, don't pay no never mind to me.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or that have your location, and keystroke/typing cadence mapped out.

There are dozens of fingerprinting methods.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's a public forum. Anyone can read it. Why wouldn't the government keep tabs on it. The real question is to ask if they care. And that answer is probably no.

The problem with the kind of vast surveillance systems like with the NSA is that when you aren't smart about how you collect and process information you'll end up with loads of pretty useless information that bogs down your ability to process it.

[–]BISH 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The real question is to ask if they care.

Thought police, vaccine passports, and the social credit score slave system.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Which like any social control system teach a point of diminishing returns. Even in Orwell's distopia the proles were largely ignored. Monitored but not bothered unless they posed a threat to the ruling class.

The outer party is the most strictly controlled. The inner party is more strictly monitored as they cannot trust each other to not act in total self interest, however, they will not act in a manner that disrupts the hierarchy as they would lose their status, so they are given a great deal more freedom than others because in reality they have less.

[–]BISH 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someday, you'll have a rude awakening.